What's the difference between area and low?

Area


Definition:

  • (n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
  • (n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.
  • (n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
  • (n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
  • (n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
  • (n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
  • (n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
  • (2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
  • (3) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (4) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (5) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (6) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (7) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
  • (8) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (9) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
  • (10) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
  • (11) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
  • (12) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
  • (13) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
  • (14) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (15) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
  • (16) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (17) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (18) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
  • (19) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
  • (20) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.

Low


Definition:

  • () strong imp. of Laugh.
  • (v. i.) To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.
  • (n.) The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.
  • (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
  • (n.) Fire; a flame; a light.
  • (v. i.) To burn; to blaze.
  • (superl.) Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.
  • (superl.) Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.
  • (superl.) Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.
  • (superl.) Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.
  • (superl.) Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.
  • (superl.) Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.
  • (superl.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.
  • (superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, / (/m), / (all). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 10, 11.
  • (superl.) Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.
  • (superl.) Numerically small; as, a low number.
  • (superl.) Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.
  • (superl.) Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes.
  • (superl.) Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.
  • (superl.) Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison.
  • (superl.) Submissive; humble.
  • (superl.) Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
  • (superl.) Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.
  • (superl.) Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.
  • (superl.) Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.
  • (n.) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
  • (adv.) In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.
  • (adv.) Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.
  • (adv.) In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
  • (adv.) In time approaching our own.
  • (adv.) With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.
  • (adv.) With a low musical pitch or tone.
  • (adv.) In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice.
  • (adv.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
  • (v. t.) To depress; to lower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
  • (2) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
  • (3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (4) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
  • (5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (6) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
  • (7) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (8) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
  • (9) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (10) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
  • (11) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
  • (12) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
  • (13) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
  • (14) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
  • (15) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (16) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (17) The extreme quenching of the dioxetane chemiluminescence by both microsomes and phosphatidylcholine, as a model phospholipid, implies that despite the low quantum yield (approx.
  • (18) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
  • (19) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (20) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.

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